Current Events

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Current Events

• Navy Considers Sailors Trained For Close-Quarters
  Assault plan to complement the Marine Corps.
• US Navy LCS Program Picks Up Steam
• WILMA?

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Other Officer Communities
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Concerns

• The NROTC program does not train midshipmen for
  the restricted line communities.
• You may have long term goals of transitioning to
  a restricted line community or, desire to pursue
  a specialized URL career after initial warfare
  designation.

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Designators

• A designator is a four-digit, numeric code that
  describes the type of job an officer is
  designated to do.
• The last number indicates the status of an
  officer with a "5" meaning reserve, "0" regular,
  and "7" training active reserves (TAR)

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Communities

• Line Officers Perform the immediate mission of
  the Navy.
• Staff Officers Perform services and support the
  line communities.
• TAR Officers These officers are reserve
  officers on active duty who specialize in the
  training of reserves.

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Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer (AEDO/151X)

• Job Description
• Provides professional management and technical
  direction in the design, development,
  acquisition, production and logistic support of
  naval aircraft, air and space weapon systems and
  their related support equipment.

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Aerospace Maintenance Duty Officer (AMDO)(152X)

• Job Description
• Provide full-time professional maintenance and
  material logistic support managers for naval
  aviation. This means ensuring aircraft
  maintenance is done and that flight crews are
  provided safe aircraft for flight.

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Chaplain Corps (4100)

• Job Description
• Provide religious ministries to meet the needs of
  naval service personnel and their dependents.

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Civil Engineering Corps (CEC) (510x)

• Job Description
• Support to the operational elements of the navy
  through planning, design, construction and
  maintenance of shore and ocean facilities.

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CEC Job Description

• Engineers and architects who manage naval shore
  facilities and oversee construction/maintenance
  by the shore establishment (Seabees).
• The Civil Engineering Corps possesses a limited
  combat capability.

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Cryptology Officer (161X)

• Job Description
• Duties generally include Navy cryptologic
  services and national signals intelligence
  (SIGINT) tasks designated by the Director,
  National Security Agency/Chief, Central Security
  Service.

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Cryptology Officer (161X)

• There are presently over 720 cryptologic officers
  stationed aboard ships and with Naval Security
  Group Activities worldwide. The community
  accesses approximately 30 new ensigns each year.

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Engineering Duty Officer (ED/146X) (116XE)

• Job Description
• Serve as technical specialists for the
  acquisition, construction, maintenance and
  modernization of ships, combat/weapons systems,
  ordnance systems, and electronic and space
  warfare systems.

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1700 Community

• Formerly the General Unrestricted Line Community
  (GURL) Now Fleet Support
• Women in the Navy
• 1908 First women report to duty in D.C., Navy
  Nurse Corps established.
• 1917 Women authorized as volunteers
• 1942 Womens Auxiliary Reserves and Women
  Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service (WAVES)

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Women in the Navy

• 1943 Women authorized to hold rank of Captain.
• 1948 Women permitted to enter Navy in Regular or
  reserve status.
• 1967 Rank restriction removed.
• 1972 Women accepted into ROTC, restricted to
  GURL, Nursing and Supply Corps.
• 1973 Aviation Training Authorized.

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Women in the Navy

• 1976 Naval Academy admits women.
• 1978 Women allowed to fill sea duty billets on
  support and noncombatant ships
• 1992 Women permitted in all fields except SEALS
  and Submarines following Desert Storm.
• 1994 First women report to combat duty on USS
  Dwight D. Eisenhower.
• 1995GURL Disestablished.

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Intelligence Officer (163X)

• Job Description
• All intelligence officers, despite their
  different programs of origin, work together
  providing the fleet with critical intelligence
  and assessments of other fleets.

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Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG)

• Job Description
• A JAG officer provides legal advice and services
  to client commands as well as active and retired
  service members and their dependents.

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U.S. Navy Medical Department

• Ensures the best possible health and medical
  support of the Navy and Marine Corps personnel
  and their dependents.
• Medical Corps
• Nurse Corps
• Dental Corps
• Medical Service Corps

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Naval Oceanographer (1800)

• Job Description
• Support naval strategy and tactics by applying
  the sciences of oceanography, meteorology, and
  mapping, charting, and geodesy to naval
  operations.
• To assess/predict the impact of the environment
  on naval platforms, weapon systems, sensors and
  naval operations.

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Special Duty Public Affairs (165x)

• Job Description
• Advises senior Navy leadership on all matters
  relating to public affairs.
• Interfaces with media organizations.
• Informs and educates the public regarding Navy
  operations and policies.
• Informs and educates Navy personnel, their
  families, reservists, and civilian employees.

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Special Operations Officer (119X/114X if SWO
qualified)

• Job Description
• Special operations was created to preserve and
  develop essential perishable skills which were
  not covered within the charters of existing
  communities.

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Expendable Ordnance Management (EOM).

• Involves conventional and special weapons
  handling, procurement, storage, transportation,
  and life-cycle management

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Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)

• Involves field location/relocation,
  identification, rendering-safe, recovery, and
  exploitation for intelligence of all U.S. and
  foreign ordnance that has been placed and poses a
  threat.

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Diving and Salvage (DS)

• Includes all aspects of diving and salvage
  including operational DS, research/ development,
  training/education, and experimental diving.

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Mine Countermeasures (MCM)

• Formally added as fourth functional area in
  1987. Includes billets aboard MCS, MHC and MCM
  ships, and at major shore staffs Also provides
  opportunity for LCDR CO afloat.

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Special Warfare Officer (118X/113X)

• Job Description
• Special warfare officers are members of the
  smallest unrestricted line community and perform
  a varied number of tasks, including
• Hydrographic reconnaissance, land and underwater
  demolitions, weapons training, small unit
  tactics, land reconnaissance, and combat-diving
  training with selected types of SCUBA.

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Naval Supply Corps Officers (310X)

• Job Description
• As the Navy's principal seagoing Staff Corps, the
  goal of the Supply Corps is to provide logistical
  and operational support to the fleet in many
  areas of expertise.

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